Dimitar Berbatov
Berbatov in 2011
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Dimitar Ivanov Berbatov | ||
| Date of birth | 30 January 1981 | ||
| Place of birth | Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria | ||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Pirin Blagoevgrad | |||
| CSKA Sofia | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1998–2001 | CSKA Sofia | 49 | (26) |
| 2001 | Bayer Leverkusen II | 7 | (6) |
| 2001–2006 | Bayer Leverkusen | 154 | (69) |
| 2006–2008 | Tottenham Hotspur | 70 | (27) |
| 2008–2012 | Manchester United | 108 | (48) |
| 2012–2014 | Fulham | 51 | (19) |
| 2014–2015 | Monaco | 38 | (13) |
| 2015–2016 | PAOK | 17 | (4) |
| National team | |||
| 1999 | Bulgaria U18 | 2 | (2) |
| 1999–2000 | Bulgaria U21 | 3 | (3) |
| 1999–2010 | Bulgaria | 78 | (48) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 June 2016. |
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Dimitar Ivanov Berbatov (Bulgarian: Димитър Иванов Бербатов [diˈmitɐr bɛrˈbatɔf]; born 30 January 1981) is a Bulgarian professional footballer who is currently a free agent. A striker, he captained the Bulgaria national team from 2006 to 2010, and is the country's all-time leading goalscorer. He has also won the Bulgarian Footballer of the Year a record seven times, surpassing the number of wins by Hristo Stoichkov.
Born in Blagoevgrad, Berbatov started out with his home-town club Pirin before joining CSKA Sofia as a 17-year-old in 1998. He was signed by Bayer Leverkusen of Germany in January 2001 and played in his first Champions League final 18 months later, coming on as a substitute in the 2002 UEFA Champions League Final, which Leverkusen lost 2–1 to Real Madrid.
After five-and-a-half years with Leverkusen, he joined English club Tottenham Hotspur in July 2006, where he spent two years before moving to Manchester United. He played in his second Champions League final in 2009, during his side's 2–0 defeat against Barcelona. After four seasons with United, during which time he won two Premier League titles in 2008–09 and 2010–11, as well as the Premier League Golden Boot in 2010–11, he joined Fulham in August 2012. He had later spells in France with Monaco, and Greece with PAOK.
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